Album Of The Day: The Ones We Never Knew by Holly Williams

Album Art of Holly Williams's The Ones We Never Knew album - A black-and-white photo of a woman slouched on a couch with a large guitar on her lap, strumming it and looking to the left of the camera. The couch and her is mostly on the left side of the frame, with her right leg extending to the floor to the middle of the frame. The foot is on the wooden floor and behind her can be seen an upright piano with music spread out over the top of it. Where the piano meets the wall, printed above the photo is the artist's name and in smaller print, the album title below that.

I remember hearing the song "Between Your Lines" on a 2004 Paste magazine sampler CD. It was a composition of pain and brokenness that also pointed to a higher power in a beautiful way. As was often the case back then, I was interested enough that I bought the whole album on CD. And I definitely found that this debut album of Holly Williams, granddaughter of Hank Williams and daughter of Hank Williams Jr., was a solid collection of songs like the one I first heard. I'm not a huge fan of country twang, but this definitely has more of a pop/rock style than most country/Americana albums. This is an album full of beautiful songs of love and broken relationships, mostly mid-tempo and not over-produced. Unfortunately, her second album was much more of a country radio release and I didn't like it, though her 3rd album was a return to the style I liked on this album.

Release Year: 2004
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